Homestead Pennsylvania

Follow the Steeler702 Crew as we travel to Homestead Pennsylvania, site of the "Battle of Homestead" The original pump house and bridge is featured along with the Carrie Furnaces in the background.


In 1892, owner Andrew Carnegie and his plant manager Henry Clay Frick decided to break the steelworkers union at the Carnegie Steel Company plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Frick locked out the steelworkers and hired 300 armed guards from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to protect non-union strikebreakers. When the Pinkertons arrived on barges, armed steelworkers defeated them in a bloody pitched battle. Later, however, the state militia supported Carnegie, and the strike—along with the union—was broken. Seven steelworkers and 3 Pinkertons died in the one day battle.

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• Homestead
• Pinkerton
• Carrie
• Furnace
• Steel
• Mill
• Union

[ray72982]

i work in the original building of the steel mill, marcegaglia usa

[ray72982]

hard to imagine the population of homestead during the strike was about 20,000. now its around 5000.

[jhn128]

Also, the Library he built in Homestead was in fact built on the field that the militia camped on. What a nice visual example of how Carnegie really liked to let his workers know who was in power.

[jhn128]

I agree, Carnegie really didn't care about the workers at all. The Libraries he donated were only to appease his troubled conscience. He really was a horrible man.

[Deanjunkie666]

although the steel industry was really good, mr. carnegie was a douchebag because i made his workers live in little patches with homes, and only gave them enough money to pay off the debts they owed him. he made the most money of anyone else in the world one year and cut people's salaries to celebrate, when workers went on strike and the army was called in to break up the fight, they helped carnegie because he helped out the president. before he died he gave money to make himself look good.

[Johnsnyder666]

the highest quality steel that will ever be made came out of the Homestead Works n'at

[unklwlly]

Cool

[99999999999999999931]

thanks